I love this river

Maurisa, the rider of Pony Pie, walking along some rocks in the Ocmulgee River.
Elaine, her grandmother (and the rider of Lady), Maurisa, and I did a late afternoon hike along the Hitchiti Nature Trail and we boogied along the path as we started so late in the day. We didn't want to get caught in the dark and we made it out with a good fifteen minutes of daylight to spare.

The Ocmulgee is such a part of my weekends. The trails at HorseCamp/1099 parallel it for miles. When we ride in the Hitchiti, the creek we cross empties into the Ocmulgee. I run or bike along Macon's River Walk and watch the river, and when I take Sparky swimming at the Waterworks Park, we swim in the Ocmulgee. Often on my Weekly Walk With Woo, we're in Rose Hill Cemetery, on the other side of the Ocmulgee from the River Walk

I got lucky when I met up with Elaine a few years ago. We both love to ride our horses in the woods and go for hikes and Maurisa likes to come along, too. Elaine is currently keeping RalphtheWonderPony at her place as a companion for her old TWH gelding, Boxer. I wish that I'd gotten a picture of the two of them as they're both old and white and gimpy and look like two peas in a pod sitting on the porch of the retirement pasture comparing notes about past glory and hurumphing over the kids these days and that the help (who would be Elaine on a daily basis and me when I visit) just don't deliver the Triple Crown Senior quickly enough. But I'd misplaced my wee Sony camera (it fell behind the book case) and my big Canon SLR I'd left at home as it's too big to take trail riding, and trail riding was what I did yesterday morning, so all I had with me was my cell phone camera.

And it takes a decent picture, but not the best. When my contract runs out with Verizon, I'm really going to have to pay more attention to the camera on whatever new phone I get as I seem to take a lot of pictures with it.

Me. Btw, Irideon winter riding tights make great hiking pants. I speak from experience.


Elaine along the rocks where Little Falling Creek enters the Ocmulgee River.


Leaves I brought home from our hike.

This picture is much larger as I took it with the pretty Canon SLR.

No pictures of the trail ride on Asia yesterday, which is a shame, but the wee Sony was still not found. Found it this morning before I went mountain biking at the Arrowhead Trail at Lake Tobosofkee with Kim and Beth. No Big Foots spotted, but I forgot to even look as I was having such a good time riding. I've not ridden Arrowhead since before the Mother's Day tornado that tore it to shreds in 2008. I never considered it to be any fun as it had no flow, but that's changed and wow, does it ever! OMBA hired a professional trail builder to lay out the design and the trail just rolls. There's still a lot of uphill climbing, but nothing too bad. I made the climbs. But what I really enjoyed were the whoops and the sections where all I did was pick my line and let my Klein just flow down the trail, barely throwing a pedal stroke and feathering the brakes as needed.

It's been a good two days outside.